Paris
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Buried trésor
Wherever French see merde, there’s someone over the Manche to appreciate a picturesque glitter
Saints and sinners
The dotty suggestion the Queen be canonised is an expression of a hope she will not be forgotten
Liverpool, lies and France’s shame
The Stade de France fiasco bodes ill for forthcoming international sports events
Hilary Hahn: Paris (Deutsche Grammophon)
Hahn’s finely honed skills as a violinist are seldom in demand on this one-star album
Art in Paris under Covid
Mark Le Fanu goes to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Marmottan, and the Musée Antoine Bourdelle
The literal gaze of James Tissot
An exhibition of the work of the 19th century painter James Tissot has opened in Paris
Vive Le Roi!
French Royalist groups wait for a king, but is their cause surely lost?
Temperature rises in Paris
Paris unlocks but restrictions remain in place to prevent rioting
The liberation of Paris
Two excruciating months of lockdown have been lifted
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
